Author Archives: Ronnie Flores
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State Top 25 there are four newcomers, three from NorCal previously ranked, plus one SoCal squad entering for the first time this season that is slowly putting together a terrific resume. The rankings are dominated at top by the eight entrants to the CIF Southern Section Open Division, but...
Boys BB: Introducing 2026 Class
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a first look at the state’s top ninth-graders. The freshman (2026) class has 10 elite talents who are already making a huge impact and at least 15 who track as high major prospects. Some in the group are already mature and it’s important to keep that...
NEW Top 65 Class of ’25 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. The sophomore class (2025) has an excellent crop at the top, and could be one of the stronger classes so far this decade. We expand our 2025 rankings from 25 to 65 for this installment...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25 there are two newcomers for the second straight week from two of the state’s best leagues in JSerra of San Juan Capistrano and Dublin. The real questions are how do you balance league standings with recent results and take into account the injuries of Dougherty Valley’s...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’24 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs rolls on with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. We just published our 2023 Hot 100 for seniors and now we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2024). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 for this class expands from a Top 65...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’23 Player Ranks
We continue our boys basketball coverage for the 2022-23 school year for Gold Club VIPs with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class, beginning with seniors (2023). Our Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 has plenty of change and a whopping 30 newcomers since our last update to close out 2021-22 and we’ll...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State Top 25 there is plenty of movement following the result of a big NorCal vs. SoCal contest played at the State Preview Classic at Colony High School. There are also two newcomers, one from the North and one from the South, from traditional power leagues in each region....
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
There were plenty of results to pour over, but when this week’s boys basketball State TOP 25 was set, there is only one huge change and two newcomers to the industry’s longest running state (or national) high school rankings. In this special MLK edition, state power Mater Dei falls, but did the Monarchs fall all...
Salute to Charles White
We take a look back at the high school career of San Fernando High School great Charles White, who died this week at age 64 from liver cancer. White was a legend in the San Fernando Valley, and reached iconic status around the state when he captured the 1979 Heisman Trophy at USC as part […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Most of the state’s ranked boys basketball teams won last week, but it’s not the Harvard-Westlake and Bishop Montgomery triple OT classic that causes changes to this week’s State Top 25, it’s St. John Bosco’s road win over Trinity League kingpin Mater Dei. There are two new teams at the bottom of the rankings, including...
